System of fur-garment making



A ril 1, 1924. 1,488,819

' D. KALETSARI ET AL SYSTEM OF FUR GARMENT MAKING Filed 001:, 8 1921 x I10 l I g I i l i 1 g w v. we l 1r f g E s i I v J Patented Apr. 1, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

DAMIAN KALETSARI, ELIAS BELLAS, AND ABRAHAM BRONS-TEIN, OF NEW YORK, N.Y.

SYSTEM OF FUR-GARMENT MAKING.

Application filed October 8, 1921.

Z '0 all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAMIAN KALE'rsARI, ELIAS BELLAS, and ABRAHAMBnonsrnin, the first two inventors subjects of the King of Greece andthe last citizen of the United States, each residing at New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Systems of Fur-Garment Making, of which thefollowing is a specifioation.

This invention relates to a method of making fur coats, having moreparticular reference to the making of coats in which 1 a cheaper fur isdyed to simulate a more expensive fur.

The invention has primarily for its object to enable garments to beproduced at the lowest possible cost, a more specific object being toenable damaged skins or small pieces to be economically handled.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawing,

and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of theinvention are more particularly set forth.

The figure of the drawing is a view showing the pattern in which theskins are sewed together prior to clipping and dyeing.

The invention is designed more particularly for use in the production ofimitation seal coats, the cheaper quality of coats, known as sealenecoats, being commonly produced from the skins of French, Australian orNew Zealand rabbits, and the better quality, simulating 'Hudson seal,being made from the skins of muskrats.

Heretofore, in making fur coats of this type, the skins have been firstdyed and then clipped and then sewed together to proper pattern. Thismethod has been open to several disadvantages in that the individualhandling of each skin in dyeing and clipping involved considerableexpense and made the utilization of small pieces, or of badly torn ordamaged skins commercially impracticable.

In making fur garments according to our Serial No. 506,316.

improved method the skins are first sewed small pieces may b readilyutilized since there is no individual handling of the same except in thesewing of the skins together.

The joined skins: are then clipped to give the fur an even thicknessthroughout the garment, this clipping being accomplished with muchgreater facility than when following the old method.

The joined and clipped skins are then subj ected to the proper dyeingoperation to give them the desired appearance, the whole body of thecoat being handled as a single unit in this operation.

The patterned skins may then be out along the dotted lines 12 to formthe coat, or they may be cut into any number of pieces of such shape asmay be desired.

As will be apparent, with our improved method of making coats of thistype a considerable saving in expenses is effected, while skins thatotherwise would be of no use, are utilized with advantage.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire toprotect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

A method of making wearing apparel consisting of sewing together theadjacent edges of animal skins shaped as when they are taken from theanimal, utilizing small pieces of such skins and other pieces of badlytorn skins to fill out the spaces: between the larger skins, clipping orotherwise treating the combined skins so that the fur shall be of evenlength throughout the entire article, dyeing the entire article, andcutting or otherwise determining the shape of the entire compositearticle so that it will conform to a definite shape desired in themanufacture of a certain article of wearing apparel.

In testimony whereof we have afiixed our signatures.

DAMIAN KALETSARI. ELIAS BELLAS. AL BRONSTEIN.

